Reading this makes me on one level delight in my departure from the very tactile world of opera to the far more abstract world of string quartets. Also umm leng for a les bean!
I think you can find the Milo Rau production online — it's an unorthodox starting point but a good one if you're interested in how it reads today. The Salzburg production I shared a clip from is on YouTube in its entirety (and with subtitles). It's also a good one, although the final beats are a bit weird in that "It's 2003 and we're in Austria so we have to be weird" way.
“I’m struck by how often we hear that art ‘can lift us above the divisive rhetoric of present-day politics’ only as a defense when an artist takes a job that is linked to the oppressor rather than the oppressed; that’s more in service of power than people.”
Reading this makes me on one level delight in my departure from the very tactile world of opera to the far more abstract world of string quartets. Also umm leng for a les bean!
Great essay. I'll have to dig deeper into "La Clemenza di Tito"
I think you can find the Milo Rau production online — it's an unorthodox starting point but a good one if you're interested in how it reads today. The Salzburg production I shared a clip from is on YouTube in its entirety (and with subtitles). It's also a good one, although the final beats are a bit weird in that "It's 2003 and we're in Austria so we have to be weird" way.
“I’m struck by how often we hear that art ‘can lift us above the divisive rhetoric of present-day politics’ only as a defense when an artist takes a job that is linked to the oppressor rather than the oppressed; that’s more in service of power than people.”
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Thinking about Trump's health this weekend, I was reminded of how, whenever there was a crisis in the USSR, state television would play Swan Lake.